# John D. MacDonald

- Quotes: 2
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-d-macdonald

## Books

- [A Flash of Green](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-d-macdonald/a-flash-of-green.md) — 1 quote
- [Slam the Big Door](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-d-macdonald/slam-the-big-door.md) — 1 quote

## Recently added quotes

> Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn fool tells him he's going to see.

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> He had detected a certain sensitivity, a capacity for imagination, in the girl in New York. But the years and the roads, the bars and the cars and the beds and the bottles — they all have flinty edges, and they are the cruel upholstery in the dark tunnel down which the soul rolls and tumbles until no more abrasion is possible, until the ultimate hardness is achieved. So here she sat, having achieved the bland defensive heartiness of a ten-dollar whore.

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